It’s hard to deny the sheer convenience of text messaging: punch a few buttons, hit send, and you’re instantly in touch with your friends and family without all the unnecessary small talk that a phone call demands. Unfortunately, that kind of convenience comes at an equally inconvenient – and unrea
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The parents of a Spanish photojournalist who was captured by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Sunday they had received a phone call from him in which he said he was well but in a Tripoli jail.
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Susan Williams had asked private investigator Joe La Bella to find her a hit man. He went to the District Attorney instead. Listen to this phone call he made to Susan and recorded by the DA's detectives, in which he tells her he’s found a willing hit man. This exclusive clip is part of the Dateli

When Michael Mihalik gets a phone call offering a free cruise, he takes the bait. But a $190 deposit later, he's having second thoughts about this getaway. The company won't refund his deposit. Should it?
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Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a professor of economics, joins The Last Word to analyze the relationship between David Koch, Wisconsin and the entire Republican Party.

In a phone call he believed he was having on Tuesday with a major campaign donor, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker provided his critics with evidence that the real motivation behind his union standoff is not saving money, as he has insisted publicly, but crushing public unions. NBC's Michael Isikoff

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Air Force Lt. Col. David Hanson, of Chicago, takes a phone call from a youngster in Florida at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 24. Volunteers take as many as 80,000 phone calls from youngsters and adults around the world with ques